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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/Kconfig.preempt')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/Kconfig.preempt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt index 0b46a5d..c64ce9c 100644 --- a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt +++ b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ config PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY "explicit preemption points" to the kernel code. These new preemption points have been selected to reduce the maximum latency of rescheduling, providing faster application reactions, - at the cost of slighly lower throughput. + at the cost of slightly lower throughput. This allows reaction to interactive events by allowing a low priority process to voluntarily preempt itself even if it @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ config PREEMPT even if it is in kernel mode executing a system call and would otherwise not be about to reach a natural preemption point. This allows applications to run more 'smoothly' even when the - system is under load, at the cost of slighly lower throughput + system is under load, at the cost of slightly lower throughput and a slight runtime overhead to kernel code. Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop or |
